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Gratitude itself is a source of joy.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishesa compassionate religion from a cult.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.You give your own meaning to time, as to life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The inherent nature of life is constant change.To fear change is to fear life itself.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What if it were only an illusion?Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenityis our fear of the future -our fear of the unknown.Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Suppose our gratitude could be zero-based gratitude.With zero-based gratitude,we would be grateful for everything we had each day -regardless of whether it was more or less than yesterday.With zero-based gratitude, I can be grateful for all the people,the love, the food, the shelter, the services,the health, that I am blessed with today,regardless of what I had yesterday.With zero-based gratitude,I can be grateful each day for the gift of life itself.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Once you have seen the truthyou must make the decision to let goof the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.This requires you to take action.If you are attached to your pain, resentment,and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,this will be a difficult step for you.Taking action requires letting go of the very thingyou have been holding on to for so many years.There is comfort in what we find familiar,even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.It takes absolute faith in yourselfplus courage, will, and discipline to let go.But once you let go, it will be as ifthe weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.In this process it is important to forgivenot just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.For most people, giving ourselvesthe gift of forgiveness is very challenging.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fog Quotes and Sayings

Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselvesthat all of life is not black and white.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,for all God's creatures - large and small,for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a handand the whispered "I love you."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -the little things that are so easy to overlook,yet so awe inspiring when we take a momentto notice and to pay attention.Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,for all God's creatures - large and small,for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,for the baby's laugh,for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life cannot be lived fully or joyfully ifour thoughts are focused on regretting the past,preoccupied with anticipating the future,or lost in the mind-fog of unconscious habitual behavior.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes Quotes and Sayings

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,sometimes you don't.What matters is that you did your best.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We do not always see what is before our face -sometimes we see what we hope to see,or fear we will see.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The challenge of living a great life is to createa meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For everything I observe or experience,I create a story - not sometimes, but always.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -often with great intensity.Be open to new ways;sometimes newness just knocks on our door;welcome it.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can live the life you love -even in the face of the most challenging circumstances.While sometimes it may appear that life throws more obstaclesin your path than you can handle,you can always choose to be happy.Yes, you are that powerful.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes, our family's most important jobis reminding us how unimportant we are.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Endings: sometimes a season of sorrow and grief.Endings: what must precede new beginnings.Life is an endless cycle of endings and beginnings.Renewal and rebirth cannot occur without endings -as the new year's crop can only be planted and flourishin the decay of last year.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For everything observed or experienced,each of us creates a "story" - not sometimes, but always.A "story" is the fiction a person tells themselvesabout what has happened or is happening.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Not everyone is always going to like what you do.Your job application, your book proposal,your offer of marriage is going toget rejected sometimes - perhaps often.Your boss, your spouse, even the personbehind you in the supermarket checkout lineis occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.Don't take it personally.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are composed of self-contradictions.Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.Understanding - and self-absorbed.Reassuring - and sarcastic.Generous - and greedy.Trusting - and jealous.Comforting - and snappish.Original - and stuck in a rut.Thankful - and needy.Forgiving - and vengeful.Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.Being Joyful - and Suffering.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are not your mind. You, a Spiritual BEing,are neither your mind nor your body.Mind and body are your tools - to use as you choose.Sometimes your body appears to have a will of its own,as when it twitches or pains.Likewise, your mind often appears to have its own will.That incessant chattering of regret, disappointment, guilt,shame, foreboding, worry, and fearis your Rattlesnake Mind striking off on its own.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone has an opinion on many subjectsand is ready to share those opinions -labeling them as "truth."Sometimes it is relatively easyto filter out these opinions.Upon hearing an ad for the latestweight-loss powder on late-night TV,our skepticism leaps to our defense.However, if we have heard the same opinion for yearsfrom our parents, friends,government officials, or religious leaders,we are more likely to believe without questioningthan to raise our filter of skepticismand ask the hard questions.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Quotations are slippery things, really.A brief sentence or phrase, often repeated -always completely out of its original context -and sometimes not an accurate representationof the author's original words, let alone his intentions.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Regrets and their cousins, resentments,are a huge cause of self-inflicted suffering.Sometimes it takes years of psychotherapyto gain freedom from regrets about what you did or did not do,and freedom from resentment over what others did or did not do.Sometimes it takes a lifetime of self-talk to rememberto put the past in the past where it belongs.However, sometimes a simple symbolic act can help immeasurablyto grant ourselves freedom from the past.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Find a time and place of solitude.Look into the distance, and into the future.Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -and begin to build that tomorrow, today.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Footprints in the sands of time...Where have you been?Where are you going?Why are you going there?- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to laugh at life,laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,laugh loud - laugh often,laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the World You See,and See the World You Choose.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How do you want to be remembered?Live life full out - Begin today.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you do, do with kindness.Whatever you say, say with kindness.Wherever you go, radiate kindness.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"as a destroyer of our humanity.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May the world be kind to you,and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness bloomsin the presence of self-respectand the absence of ego.Love yourself.Love everyone around you.Love everyone in the whole world.Know that your own life is of infinite importance,as is every other life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you feel stuck?Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,or some other situation,there is a time for perseverance,and a time for letting go and moving on.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One of the surest ways to causeyourself great sufferingis to insist upon being right -to demand that all others view lifeexactly as you view it.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Put some distance between yourselfand whatever is concerning you.Distance in space or timealways creates a new perspective.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you believe that a task will be difficult, it will be -and you will have suffered with worry beforehand.Approach life with joy and optimism.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the World You See.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know the power of saying, "Thank you."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take the initiative - don't wait for life to come to you.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Keep your feet firmly planted on the groundas you reach for the stars.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.It's your own job to appreciate yourself.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you don't do daily, you probably won't do weekly either.What you make a habit of putting-offjust keeps getting pushed away again and again.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The abundance of life is unlimited -it expands with the generosity, compassion,inventiveness, and service that you contribute.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,so you may as well live it full out.Chart your course, cast off the lines,and boldly sail the seas of life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never say or do anything you wouldn't wantto be the last thing you ever said or did.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to dothan to be the best YOU that you can be -with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that you hold the power tobring peace into moments of chaos.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie